The Bible offers powerful stories that have influenced faith and morals for centuries. Some, however, pose tough ethical ...

Genesis 17:11-14 Abraham kept this covenant and his wife, Sarah, gave birth to their son, Isaac. God chose Isaac to inherit the covenant directly from his father, and Isaac handed it on to his own ...

In Genesis, the first book of the Bible ... Abraham’s first wife. This promise contains elements that, in translation, sound like a prediction of hostility between Ishmael and Isaac’s descendants.